Why Trade Winds?

During the ancient times, when barter was still the mode of trading, traders used sail boats for transporting goods across the seas. Their trading places depended on where the wind currents would take their sail boats. They then called this nature-given driving force as TRADE WINDS.

DTI-5 named its quarterly publication TRADE WINDS in reference to trade and industry activities, which are perennially affected by various changing factors such as prices of raw materials and other production inputs, national and international economic situations, policies, environment, capital and markets, among others.